The Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission forum explored pressing issues in housing in 2013 including demographic trends impacting housing markets, efforts to link housing and healthcare to serve the most vulnerable populations, access to credit for prospective...
Vice President Joe Biden administers the oath of office to Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency during a ceremonially swearing-in ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Before taking charge...
Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) participates in a foreclosure prevention workshop in Gwynn Oak, Maryland to provide legal, debt, and credit counseling for people facing foreclosure. The workshop was part of a program started in 2009.
Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) meets with members of the Consolidated Board of Realtists in Los Angeles to discuss opportunities for the African-American real estate community regarding foreclosed properties throughout the area.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (OH) at Public Housing Authorities Directors Association Legislative Form
NAACP members, including Jackson (Jackie) Vaughn, III at right, picket an apartment building at 4762 Second Street in Detroit, Michigan for discriminative housing practices.
Legislative report includes updates on major CBC efforts as well as summaries of Caucus braintrust meetings. Included is a summary of the inaugural meeting of the CBC Housing Braintrust on April 9, 1979. Reps. Parren Mitchell (MD), William Gray (PA) and Del. Walter...
Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD) participates in a foreclosure prevention workshop in Gwynn Oak, Maryland to provide legal, debt, and credit counseling for people facing foreclosure. The workshop was part of a program started in 2009.
Protesters carry signs demanding decent housing at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, DC. Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the...
Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) leads a press conference on the subprime mortgage crisis and how the larger economic downturn disproportionately impacts minority communities. Pictured with her are National urban League President and former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial (left)...
Sen. Edward Brooke looks over a civil rights bill in his office.